THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XLIII.] SEPTEMBEE, 1910. [No. 568 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY. 

 By H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



As the first Congress of Entomology ever held, the Inter- 

 national Congress which met at Brussels on August Ist, and 

 continued in session for the whole of the following week, marks 

 an epoch in the history of our science. We owe, therefore, a 

 deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Walter Rothschild, Dr. K. Jordan, 

 and those others who took the initiative in the matter, and now 

 that all is over we congratulate them heartily on the success 

 which has attended their endeavours. The muster of members 

 (260 men and 33 ladies) was in every way gratifying ; the number 

 of Universities, Museums, Institutes, and Societies (270 in all) 

 who have given their names also as supporters, is agreeable proof 

 that Entomology is recognized as entitled to rank with the pro- 

 gressive forces of the scientific as well as the economic and 

 commercial world. Our only regret is that so comparatively few 

 of the active field- workers in our own country should have found 

 it possible to attend. But when we remember that the first 

 week in August is usually the first— and sometimes the only — 

 week's holiday vouchsafed to many of us, we are the better able 

 to understand why so many faces familiar at our London, 

 Birmingham, and Manchester meetings were conspicuous by 

 their absence. The next Congress, we are pleased to hear, is 

 fixed for Oxford iik^l2 ; we trust that it may be convenient to 

 select a date in September, when we are less loth to exchange 

 the open country for the conference chamber. 



Among those who assisted, however. Great Britain and 

 Ireland achieved a large majority, including the following 

 Fellows of the Entomological Society of London : — Messrs. 

 G. J. Arrow, R. S. Bagnall, Dr. Malcolm Burr (an indefatigable 

 International Secretary), G. C. Champion, E. M. Dadd, Dr. 



F. A. Dixey, H. St. J. Donisthorpe, H. Eltringham, C. J. 

 Gahan, A. T. Gillanders, Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bart., 

 J. M. Howlett, A. H. Jones, Dr. K. Jordan, E. G. Joseph, Dr. 



G. B. Longstaflf, G. A. K. Marshall, G. Meade- Waldo, F. 

 Merrifield, Professor E.B. Poulton, Professor R. C. Punnett, the 



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